Kavya is domestic Rodents

At the time of the Spanish conquest of Peru (16th century), guinea pigs of the Andean peoples were mainly used in agriculture (as a source of meat) and ritual purposes (animal blood donation, gut divination)[12].

For the first time, the guinea pig under its Quechuan name «kuy» or «qui» (Quechua Quwi; Saka icha Haka > isp. cuy, coi, cui, coy) is mentioned in European scientific works by Pedro Ciez de León in 1554 in the book «Chronicle of Peru»[10]. In the dictionary Diego González Olgina (1608) the words «Ccoui», «Ccuy», «Ccoy» - «local little rabbit», «rabbit from India»[11]. The word «gift» was also called «ccuy».

Important information about the existence in Colombia of one of the varieties of the genus of guinea pigs - an animal called Cori (the word, possibly Aravak (Antilles) origin) - are given in the report of royal officials Juan de San Martin and Antonio de Lebrihi, who took personal participation in the campaign of conquistador Gonzalo Jimenses de Caesada on the territory of Columbia (July 1539):

People of Mochika culture worshiped guinea pigs and depicted them on objects of art[7]. From 1200 until the Spanish conquest in 1532, selection work was carried out, which allowed to breed many breeds of guinea pigs, some of which are the basis for modern domestic guinea pigs

Guinea pigs were domesticated in the 5th millennium BC. e. by the Andean tribes of South America (modern territories of southern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia) for food[4], several thousand years after the domestication of camels of South America[5]. Statues dating from 500 BC. e. to 500 AD e., depicting guinea pigs, were found during archaeological excavations in Peru and Ecuador

Guinea pig [1] (lat. Cavia porcellus) is a species of domesticated rodents from the genus of porcupines of the porcine family. Despite the name, they are not related to the pig family and are not recognized as marine animals.